skateboarding

  • zephr team opens surf shop

    Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, Craig Stycyk, opened a surf shop in sanamonica.
  • new surfers

    Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta, Hamish Albany all joineed the surf team.
  • z-boys start skating

    Cahill, Pratt, Adams, Sarlo, Peralta and Alva asked Jeff Ho and Skip Engblom to start a skate team separate from the surf team
  • 12 new members added

    local skaters Bob Biniak, Paul Constantineau, Jim Muir, Peggy Oki, Shogo Kubo and Wentzle Ruml would join the Zephyr skate team
  • tony alva gets famous

  • tony alva invents frontside areils

    hits lip of ramp so hard that he gets air
  • tony alva career starts

  • starts tony alva skate companie

  • voted skater of the year

    The same year he was voted 'skateboarder of the year' in Skateboarder Magazine's readers' poll and he set the Guinness World Record for barrel jumping
  • tony alva career ends